Narrative, Interrupted

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What do boring stories and seemingly insignificant details reveal about the nature of narrative? How does narrativity manifest itself in forms such as stanzaic poetry and fictional dialogue? Narrative, Interrupted probes the limits of narrativity by focusing on the anti-linear, anti-causal and non-natural tendencies of literature. The book highlights the potential of literature to subvert the natural, cognitive frames of reading. It investigates that moment when a chain of events is disturbed by something that lies underneath: a feeling, an image, the shadow of the author.This essay discusses the meaning of the overlap between name change and
heteronymy in documentary prose, in terms of the ... In this essay my examples
are, indeed, factographic worksasurvivor testimonies on Nazi and Soviet
concentration camps: Primo Levia#39;s IfThis Is a Man, ... However, when Primo Levi
eventually decided to publish some science fiction, he did so under the
pseudonym Damianoanbsp;...

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Narrative, Interrupted

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Markku Lehtimäki, Laura Karttunen, Maria Mäkelä

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Walter de Gruyter - 2012-08-31

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